D'Angelin, who has been working at Centaurus for three years, said he was attracted by the business model at Quattro: "It will be focusing 50/50 on providing truly independent advice in M&A and also in capital markets and restructuring."

He said the decision to leave Centaurus was entirely amicable, and his partner at the fund Bernard Oppetit will become a shareholder in and adviser to Quattro. D'Angelin will start at Quattro in March.

Financial News revealed in December that Tory had decided not to accept a job with Japanese bank Nomura after it acquired Lehman's European business following the US investment bank's collapse, and had instead launched his own boutique.

Quattro is set to hire a number of senior bankers in the next few weeks and months. In a statement of ambition for the nascent boutique, at least one these will be in the US.

D'Angelin, 47, is the latest in a steady stream of senior bankers to move into the independent boutique sector.

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Several other former Lehman Brothers staff have emerged at smaller firms, most notably those with a financial institutions background.

They include former investment banking vice chairman Antonio Villanón, who joined Rothschild in October as co-head of its global financial institutions group along with a couple of colleagues, followed last week by Lazard's appointment of Fabrizio Cesario and Frédéric Legmann.

—Write to William Wright, editor of Financial News, at wwright@efinancialnews.com